GeForce GT 130 vs Radeon R5 M330

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R5 M330, which features clock speeds of 1030 MHz on the GPU, and 900 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R5 M330 should theoretically be just a bit better than the GeForce GT 130 overall. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		14400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 MB/sec
	Difference: 2400 (20%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R5 M330 is quite a bit (about 72%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 130. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		20600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 130		12000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 8600 (72%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon R5 M330 is a better choice, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon R5 M330		8240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 130		8000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 240 (3%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.